Combining computational prediction of cis-regulatory elements with a new enhancer assay to efficiently label neuronal structures in the medaka fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mongin, Emmanuel ^a   Auer, Thomas O ^b   Bourrat, Franck ^c   Gruhl, Franziska ^b   Dewar, Ken ^d   Blanchette, Mathieu ^a   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^b,e   Ettwiller, Laurence ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME; NEURONS; ORYZIAS;

EID: 79957599226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019747     Document Type: Article

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